Skew - Skew [Album]

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October 20, 2008, 07:39 AM

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I live for electro music so I was delighted when I popped this CD in to the computer and iTunes pops up electronic as its genre. The delight however was pretty short lived.

Kicking off with ‘Stadiums are OK too’ things sounded promising, it saw me nodding my head to what is a pretty nice dirty synth riff. I was getting excited about the big fat juicy beat that was surely on its way. Nope. The beat is has is an 8 bit old drum machine sound. It’s far from energetic and lends little to the track. This combined with the repetitive synth gets tiring to the ear rather quickly. Maybe if there were a few breaks in the noise things would improve?

For me this is sadly the story of the entire album, and it’s a great shame because I think there’s potentially some good stuff on there. Track two starts with a really nice bit of synth which reminds me of Doctor Who, back in the day, when everything was done on tape loops, and this album does well to capture that analogue sound. With the exception of the final track, which I will come back to in a minute, track four would have to be my favorite on the album, but ‘favorite’ is pushing it a bit.

So, the final track. It’s really good, smacks of Fourtet – Rounds and flows really well, sadly for Skew it’s an Eliot Lipp remix of track four. As a positive, the production on the album is pretty good, although it’s not that hard to fit that few instruments into a mix

I have to say I think Skew are the kind of group that probably come across better as a live experience, and maybe I’m missing the point of this record.

But I doubt it.

Less repetition and fatter beats and I think I could get into it, definitely a unique sound.

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